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Short-Term Memory and Working Memory Operations and Their Contribution to Reading in Adolescents with and without Learning Disabilities.
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Ashbaker, Margaret Howell; Swanson, H. Lee – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1996
This investigation explored the relationship between short-term memory (STM), working memory (WM), and reading proficiency among adolescents (n=30) with learning disabilities. Results suggest that reading models which focus on STM or WM in isolation do not adequately capture the reading performance of the students. Models that coordinate STM and…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Memory, Reading Ability, Reading Processes
Further Studies of Learning Disabled Children with Severe Performance Problems on the Digit Span Test.
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Torgesen, J. K.; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1991
Four studies, involving 8 learning-disabled (LD) children with extreme memory difficulties, 8 LD children with average short-term memory skills, and 8 average children (ages 9-11), found that LD children have difficulties recalling both item and order information. These difficulties appear to be related to inefficiencies in phonological coding…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Intermediate Grades, Learning Disabilities, Memory
Memory Profile of Children with Nonverbal Learning Disability
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Liddell, Glennis A.; Rasmussen, Carmen – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2005
The aim of this study was to compare visual and verbal memory in children with nonverbal learning disability (NLD) using the Children's Memory Scale and to identify the profile of strengths and weaknesses in visual memory abilities. Performance was significantly lower on measures of visual than verbal memory, indicating that children with NLD have…
Descriptors: Profiles, Memory, Nonverbal Learning, Neurological Impairments
Turner Syndrome: Genetic and Hormonal Factors Contributing to a Specific Learning Disability Profile
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Rovet, Joanne – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2004
Turner Syndrome (TS) is a genetic disorder affecting primarily females. It arises from a loss of X-chromosome material, most usually one of the two X chromosomes. Affected individuals have a number of distinguishing somatic features, including short stature and ovarian dysgenesis. Individuals with TS show a distinct neurocognitive profile…
Descriptors: Profiles, Brain, Learning Disabilities, Congenital Impairments
The Literacy Skills of English Language Learners in Canada
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Lipka, Orly; Siegel, Linda S.; Vukovic, Rose – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 2005
The purpose of this article is to review published studies of the English literacy of children in Canada who are English language learners (ELLs) with the goal of understanding the reading development of ELLs and characteristics of reading disabilities (RD) in this population. Phonological processing, syntactic awareness, and working memory of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Memory, Literacy
Mnemonic Generalization Training with Learning Disabled Adolescents.
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Fulk, Barbara J. Mushinski; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
This study with 56 learning-disabled adolescents found that intensive generalization training specific to the development of complex mnemonic strategies was demonstrably more effective in recall at 1-day and 2-week intervals than a rehearsal condition. No added advantage was gained by adding attribution training to the mnemonic generalization…
Descriptors: Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities, Learning Strategies
Learning Disabled Readers' Comprehension of Computer Mediated Text: The Influence of Working Memory, Metacognition and Attribution.
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Swanson, H. Lee; Trahan, Marcille F. – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1992
Learning-disabled and average readers (n=120) from grades four through six completed comprehension questions under one of four treatment conditions. Results indicated that computer-mediated text was no better than off-line conditions in improving learning-disabled readers' comprehension. Attribution and metacognitive sophistication were…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Computer Oriented Programs, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades
Specific and General Transfer Effects Following Metamemory Training.
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Lucangeli, Daniela; And Others – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1995
Two experiments with 89 fifth-grade and 166 intermediate-grade students with learning problems found that specific strategy training improved fifth graders' level of knowledge and performance on a categorical memory test, and metamemory and metacognitive reading training improved metacognitive knowledge and academic achievement of the learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Generalization, Instructional Effectiveness, Intermediate Grades